Re: Share and store RSA - public key in java server and vice versa
Re: Share and store RSA - public key in java server and vice versa
- Subject: Re: Share and store RSA - public key in java server and vice versa
- From: Roland King <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 22:15:04 +0800
On 14 May, 2014, at 9:55 pm, Jens Alfke <email@hidden> wrote:
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> On May 13, 2014, at 9:20 PM, Maxthon Chan <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> I am saying ignore the details of the format, treat certificates as binary blobs or plain strings or whatever that is opaque, and let crypto API parse it.
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> And I am saying that’s naïve, at least where Apple’s crypto API is concerned. I’ve had to expend a lot of effort over the years to look at exactly what’s in those blobs to figure out the right formats, and sometimes write my own code to parse/generate them. (Apple’s code doesn’t support a lot of the formats, esp. not on iOS.)
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> —Jens
+1. I'm with Jens that the crypto libraries are lacking in so many ways. In iOS I feel they got 1/3 ported and instead of finishing the port, the OSX team just deprecated what wasn't ported. I'm not really sure I expect that crypto example to work much longer. They are truly horrible to work with.
If you ask a similar question to the original poster on any of the Apple Developer Forums you'll be advised not to generate key pairs on a device but to do it on a server (the advice will probably come from Quinn), that's what I eventually did, at least it was supported and I wasn't trying to embed openssl v ?.x.? in my code.
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